parentshiftbook Chapter 43 A New Path
Chapter 43 A New Path
First, there's the issue of stabilizers. Wizards in this world are used to relying on their powerful mental strength to roughly harmonize and suppress drug conflicts.
They clearly don't care much about using external aids, namely more efficient stabilizers.
Stabilizers, for the wizards of this world, are more like an aid specifically for apprentices.
When it comes to refining mid- to high-level potions, wizards often just add a little bit as a matter of habit, more like a placebo.
His mind raced through the vast amount of information in "The Complete Book of Herbal Properties" and "Earth Vein Minerals," and soon, information on several materials popped up.
【Ice Crystal Stone】A mineral containing pure ice elemental magic. It is extremely cold in nature and can effectively suppress and calm overly active fire and blood-type energies. It is often used as a casting material for certain ice spells or for forging enchantments. There are very few records of its medicinal use, only mentioning that it can be used to neutralize certain violent fire poisons.
【Soul Stone】A peculiar translucent crystal with a brittle and hard texture. It has excellent affinity and conductivity for mental energy, possesses connecting and buffering properties, and can even store mental energy. Only a few drugs for treating mental illnesses require its use.
【Stone Root Grass】: The most basic stabilizer material. Although its efficacy is insufficient, it can be enhanced through purification.
A novel composite stabilizer formula gradually took shape in Li Ang's mind, and he quickly jotted down this bold idea with his pen.
By repeatedly boiling the stone root grass to obtain a large amount of extract, and then boiling these extracts dry to obtain the purest stone root grass crystals, ice crystals are added to suppress the violent fire energy and remove some of the toxicity of the materials. Soul stones, as an extension of one's own spiritual power, connect several different energies and play an auxiliary role in fusion.
He wrote down the names of the three materials, followed by approximate proportions and initial processing ideas: the ice crystal and soul stone needed to be ground to an extremely fine powder…
However, as he wrote, his brows furrowed again. Even with the new composite stabilizer solution, the traditional refining method of simply heating and stirring seemed insufficient to compensate for his lack of mental strength.
While high temperatures can certainly accelerate the efficiency of water extraction, he is now facing the problem of the liquid reacting too quickly and too violently.
"Temperature..." Li Ang murmured, tapping his fingertips lightly on the table, "What if... it's not heated the whole time?"
A concept from a past life suddenly rushed into his mind: Leng Cui.
In this world, potion making is almost synonymous with heating, and using different temperatures to activate and fuse medicinal properties is a deeply ingrained tradition.
The "cold treatment" approach? It's something no one has ever tried before, but why not give it a shot?
This thought made his heart pound; a completely new system of potion-making ideas unfolded before his eyes.
He immediately began scribbling furiously on parchment, recording the preliminary process for the cold extraction potion…
Each step involves countless details that need to be verified: the exact temperature of the low temperature? the duration of each stage? the order in which materials are added? the rate of heating?
These problems would normally require extensive experimentation to explore, but Li Ang's eyes gleamed with excitement because he didn't have to figure them out step by step.
The next morning, since there was no instructor to teach, Li Ang went to Eve's workshop early after breakfast.
His gaze immediately fell on the corner, on the [Eternal Frost Rune Cabinet] that had never been used.
【Eternal Frost Rune Cabinet: Lv0】
[Status: Bindable]
[Binding Cost: 1 Spirit Points]
"Binding." With a slight thought, Li Ang established a mental connection instantly.
[Binding successful]
[Eternal Frost Rune Cabinet: Current Level Lv0]
[Current effect: Slightly extends the shelf life of stored food]
[Level 1 Efficacy: Preservation time +10%, Minimum controllable temperature +10%]
[Upgrade Requirements: 1 Magic Stars in the Spirit World, 5 Spirit Points consumed]
Without hesitation, he directly invested 5 points of mental energy into the upgrade.
Upgrade successful
【Eternal Frost Rune Cabinet: Lv1】
[Current benefits: Preservation time +10%, minimum controllable temperature +10%]
A clearer chill returned through the mental connection, and Li Ang could now clearly perceive the changes in temperature and the internal conditions of the cabinet.
This is his confidence; he doesn't need to go through countless experiments to figure it out, he can directly feel all the changes in the cold extraction process.
He took a deep breath to calm his excitement and began to prepare the envisioned composite stabilizer.
First, he crystallized the stone root grass. He took a large amount of unprocessed stone root grass, put it into a crucible, added distilled water, lit the magic furnace, and began to repeatedly boil, extract, and filter it.
This is an extremely tedious and time-consuming process that requires precise control of the heat and water volume each time in order to extract the maximum amount of active ingredients from the stone root grass.
The workshop was silent except for the faint sound of the medicine bubbling. Sweat dripped from his forehead as time passed by.
In the end, he used more than 30 portions of rock root grass powder and, after several hours of repeated extraction and distillation, obtained about 3 grams of pure grayish-white rock root grass crystals.
Next, he took out the black stone grinding bowl and ground the selected ice crystal stone and soul stone separately.
Under the influence of the grinding bowl, the two hard minerals were quickly ground into a fine, dust-like powder.
Li Ang carefully took out a portion of each, and then he separated a wisp of his spiritual power and slowly injected it into the small pinch of soul stone powder.
Like water seeping into a sponge, the Soul Stone powder glowed slightly, perfectly storing this wisp of spiritual energy.
The final step is to mix the three ingredients according to the proportions he calculated.
When the crystallized stone root grass, the ice crystal powder, and the soul stone powder infused with spiritual power are heated in a small spare crucible, the three materials instantly and tightly fuse together.
Composite stabilizer, a success on the first try!
Looking at the bottom of the small crucible, where there were about 10 grams of grayish-blue powder, Li Ang felt a great sense of accomplishment.
He carefully placed this incredibly precious compound stabilizer into a small crystal bottle.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Li Ang ran outside the workshop and sat down against the corner of the wall. He planned to rest for a while and have a few bites of bread.
After resting for a while, Li Ang stood up again, walked into the workshop, took out a small spare crucible, poured in the purest magical water using the Water Creation spell, and then opened the Everfrost Rune Cabinet.
The rune cabinet contains several materials that require low-temperature preservation. However, this low-temperature preservation cannot be maintained indefinitely. Usually, the materials will lose their activity and become unusable after about a year.
Li Ang carefully placed the small crucible into the rune cabinet, then added a drop of anticoagulant to it. This reagent would prevent the solution from freezing even when the temperature was below 0 degrees Celsius. Afterward, he took out a sunflower and carefully placed it into the crucible.